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This account of the global switch to digital television, from its origins to its emerging outcomes, provides an understanding of how digital television is converging with the Internet. It pictures a future in which the democratic role of the media, freedom of expression and democratic participation can be enhanced.

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Preface Acknowledgements Acronyms and Abbreviations Introduction PART I 1. The Impetus for Digital Television 2. The Digital Terrestrial Pioneers 3. The UK´s Digital Transition 4. Europe´s Coordinated Timetable 6. The Wider Global Picture PART II 6. How to Switch Off Analogue TV 7. Converged Communications 8. Cross-media Regulation? 9. Public Service Digital Media 10. The Democratic Dividend In Conclusion References Index

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"Starks presents a persuasive argument that with the right amount of citizen awareness and political management, there is clear opportunity to create a new and better order of television." - Gregory Taylor, International Journal of Digital Television

"The Digital Television Revolution is at its most valuable in the clarity of its historical account: the careful selection of detail and the analysis of the meaning of every twist and turn of digital history´s early development..." - Michael Allen, Critical Studies in Television

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Michael Starks is an associate of the Programme in Comparative Media Law and Policy at Oxford University, UK. He managed the Government-led UK Digital TV Project from 2002 to 2004, planning the nation´s digital switchover strategy. Earlier he directed much of the BBC´s work on digital television and was the founder Chairman of the UK Digital TV Group. He is the author of Switching to Digital Television: UK Public Policy and the Market (2007) and the founding editor of the International Journal of Digital Television.

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